Some thoughtful reading for you going into the weekend. Blue Avocado is a very thoughtful newsletter/magazine/blog dedicated to solving issues in nonprofits. They tend to focus on “community organizations” but their advice is practical, timely, and spot-on for museums as well. Enjoy, and hopefully you …
I know you’re all keeping busy this summer with internships, summer jobs, and beating the heat, but surely we all have some time for edifying reading, right? The Stanford Social Innovation Review is a really great magazine with a great deal of application for museums. …
Get excited, because this is really, really cool, and it launches today.
Historypin is a website that enables users to upload their own historical content – of any kind – and then tag it on Google Maps. It is then geo-cached and dated. You can layer historical streetviews over existing streetviews – or see the layers of history in a particular house.
Early stages of the project look to be a huge success, and it’s already received awards for its social networking capabilities for the nonprofit world. Historypin was created by We Are What We Do, a non-profit company that works on social issues by creating tools that can shift mass behavior.
Stay tuned here at the Tufts Museum Studies blog; we’ll be doing a more in-depth review of the site and, we hope, some interviews with its creators.
Okay, I get that fundraising and development isn’t everyone’s favorite topic in the nonprofit world, but it’s crucially important, especially in this day and age. AAM has partnered up with Alexander Haas fundraising counselors to present a series of three free webinars about how fundraising …
Great event coming up this Thursday at Harvard – check it out! (Hat tip to Tufts instructor Rainey Tisdale for letting us know!) April 14, 2011 4:15 to 6:00pm Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building (Lobby Level) Harvard Kennedy School of Government Atlas Versus The Cherry …
Heads up, Tufts – this is an AMAZING workshop, and there are still spaces left. I attended the session in Atlanta at the beginning of March, and it was a useful, practical, and ridiculously fun intro to the world of project management. I’ve already taken skills that I learned in the workshop back to my day job. Best of all? It’s free. And they give you a $200 travel stipend. So what are you waiting for? More info below.
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Spaces Still Available for AASLH Project Management Workshop Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO |
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AASLH is offering its Project Management for History Professionals workshop at the Missouri History Museum, April 12-14, 2011.
The workshop is free for participants through a generous grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). A $200 travel stipend is awarded to workshop participants when the follow-up webinar training is completed. The goal of the program is to improve how history museums operate by:
These skills developed at AASLH’s Project Management Workshop are critical to the development of improved processes and, therefore, an institution’s improved ability to serve its community. There are a limited number of slots still available for the workshop. Applications for the workshop will continue to be accepted until all workshop slots are filled. Visit the Project Management Website for more information or contact: Steve Hoskins |
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